On 02/16/2015 05:56 AM, Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> It's a hell of a long time since I did probabilities in high school >>> maths, but if you just use letters instead of numbers, each position >>> could be any of 26 characters (instead of 10 options) > > g: >> or maybe they did not teach you correctly. ;-) >> >> and, it is really not a probability calculation. > > Nah, it's my memory. And, of course, not "probability" (which is what > something else might be, based on what happened before, and not > applicable to this situation), but combinations (how many possible > combinations could there be). > > Which surely had to be 26 by 26 by 26, etc., for the number of > characters used in the password. The first character could be anything > from A to Z (26 choices), likewise with each subsequent character. It's > a base-26 number, instead of base-10 decimal number. > > Anyway, bloody huge. also, just imagine how huge the 1x2x3x4... combinations would be if you use both upper and lower case letters. ;-) all of which is why i do agree with what is on the 2 grc.com pages i posted. if i ever have need to do the calculations again, i am going to write a script to do it. using a calculator is a lot of trouble. LOL. -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
